[Tex/LaTex] Footnote-numbers in the list of figures

footnotesnumberingtable of contents

After I finally made it that my figures can be used with a footnote, so I can write where I got the figure from I have the problem, that each entry in my list of figures on the last page gets a number which looks like a footnote. There are no footnotes on that page and the numbers continue from the previous real footnotes. It looks like that for each entry: enter image description here

I wouldn't mind if I just could delete the numbers later with Adobe Acrobat Pro, but unfortunately I don't have the necessary system font, although I thought I installed all LaTex fonts already. If anybody has a solution either for the actual problem or for my attempt of a workaround, I'd be very grateful.

I am using the usualy \listoffigures command, to list the figures at the last page. I am also using this command, to fix some footnote issues: \interfootnotelinepenalty=10000. The footnotes in my figures didn't work until I made them like that:

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{image.png}
\caption{footnoteText\protect\footnotemark.}
\end{figure}
\footnotetext{footnoteText. Available under \url{http://nowhere.com}, seen on 16. Januar 2014.}

Best Answer

If you don't want the footnote mark to be replicated in the List of Figures, you have to use the optional argument in \caption, that is you have to substitute something like

\caption{captionText\footnotemark.}

with

\caption[captionText]{captionText\footnotemark.}

In this way, the contents of the optional argument will be printed in the LoF instead of the one in the mandatory argument.

To automate this, you can define a new command \footcaption

\newcommand{\footcaption}[1]{\caption[#1]{#1\footnotemark.}}

and use

\footcaption{captionText}

instead of writing

\caption[captionText]{captionText\footnotemark.}

MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} % remove the option demo in your document

\newcommand{\footcaption}[1]{\caption[#1]{#1\footnotemark.}}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{image.png}
\footcaption{captionText}
\end{figure}
\footnotetext{footnoteText. Available under \url{http://nowhere.com}, seen on 16. Januar 2014.}

\listoffigures

\end{document}

Output:

enter image description here

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